(April 22, 2014 at 9:13 am)Metalogos Wrote: I guess I look at the information available to me concerning the history of the cosmos and see that everything seems to have a beginning and an end.
Yep, "everything" we can observe, which is hardly a drop in the ocean ...
(April 22, 2014 at 9:13 am)Metalogos Wrote: The universe is not static. It is not eternal.
Nope, not static, but equally eternal and non-eternal, I would say take a pick, but you already did beforehand
(April 22, 2014 at 9:13 am)Metalogos Wrote: There seems to have been a beginning to it all. We call that the Big Bang. If things have a beginning then they have an end.
Let me "fix" that for ya:
There seems to have been a beginning to what we can observe is much more like it ...
Another thing. Lots of theists or alike presume that only god is or can be eternal (or prime mover if you will), that is really a big generalization, if there is one thing eternal, there is a BIG chance that many other things are.